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The name of Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806 - 1859) is best remembered for his contribution to ... |
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... transport and associated architecture (railways, ships, bridges, tunnels etc.) |
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... the London theatre. |
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... the development of chemistry. |
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... British classical music. |
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Pick the best word/s to fill the gap and make a good true English sentence or statement.
There are ... ... 'pods' (= cabins) on the London Eye, to represent the number of Boroughs in London.
In fact there are 33 boroughs, but they left out the ... ... one because that number is said to bring bad luck. |
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... thirty-three ... / ... seventh ... |
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... thirty-two ... / ... thirteenth ... |
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... twenty-five ... / ... eleventh ... |
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... twenty-eight ... / ... seventeenth ... |
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Pick the best word/s to fill the gap and make a good true English sentence or statement.
Almost everyone must have heard of the Beatles, who 'shot to fame' about 50 years ago. They came from ... ... on the ... ... . |
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... Newcastle ... / ... River Tyne. |
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... King's Lynn ... / ... North Sea coast. |
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... Carlisle ... / ... Scottish border. |
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... Liverpool ... / ... River Mersey. |
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Pick the best word/s to fill the gap and make a good true English sentence or statement.
You can always tell whether the Queen is at home, at ... ... , because ... ... . |
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... Longleat Castle ... / ... the lions are standing to attention. |
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... Windsor Castle or Buckingham Palace ... / ... the Royal Standard (= flag) can be seen flying over the building. |
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... Balmoral or Sandringham ... / ... it says so on her website. |
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... Christmas or Easter ... / ... it is her duty to be there. |
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The counties of Cornwall and Devon (and, sometimes, Somerset and Dorset) are collectively known as ' ... ... ', while the group of counties including Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex are called ' ... ... '. |
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... East Anglia ... / ... The West Country. |
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... Western England ... / ... The South-East. |
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... The Channel ... / ... The Wash. |
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... The West Country ... / ... East Anglia. |
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It is against the law for a motorist in Britain to sound the ... ... on their vehicle, in a built-up area, between the hours of ... ... . |
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... trumpet ... / ... midnight and eight in the morning. |
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... horn ... / ... eleven-thirty at night and seven o'clock in the morning. |
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... hooter ... / ... ten-thirty in the evening and seven-thirty in the morning. |
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... whistle ... / ... midnight and six in the morning. |
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Pick the best word/s to fill the gap and make a good true English sentence or statement.
The British flag (often called the 'Union Jack'), is recognised all over the world, but it is rather harder to draw or copy than a simpler flag with just two or three plain blocks of colour. In fact it combines ... ... of the flags of the United Kingdom countries; the only country or province not represented is ... ... . |
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... three ... / ... Wales. |
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... two ... / ... Ireland. |
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... three ... / ... Scotland. |
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... four ... / ... Cornwall. |
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Pick the best word/s to fill the gap and make a good true English sentence or statement.
English is (of course!) very widely spoken, but a fairly recent analysis by the CIA in America reckoned that for every one speaker of English, there were about ... ... |
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... twice as many speakers of Spanish. |
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... three times as many speakers of Mandarin Chinese. |
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... one-and-a-half times as many speakers of Arabic. |
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... almost as many speakers of Hindi. |
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